Original Cinemaniac

Movies

Dolly

            Gleefully grisly throwback to 70s horror cinema by director Rod Blackhust. This begins with Chase (Seann William Scott) surprising his girlfriend Macy (Fabianne Therese) by taking her out in the Tennessee woods to a scenic overlook in anticipation of proposing…
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Pillion

            Wryly funny and playfully provocative kinky gay love story starring a very affecting Harry Melling as the shy, mild-mannered Colin. He’s by day a traffic warden in the outer borough of London. He also sings acapella with his dad in…
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Conversation Piece

            The second to last feature by the great Italian director Luchino Visconti, Conversation Piece is a witty, darkly humorous and ultimately tragic tale of the unwelcome intrusion of modern life onto a wealthy nobleman (Burt Lancaster), who would prefer to…
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Queen Kelly

            A glorious new reconstruction and 4K restoration of Erich von Stroheim unfinished 1929 epic Queen Kelly. This was a dream project actress Gloria Swanson and her lover at the time Joseph Kennedy (who was bankrolling it) brought to director Erich…
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Sirat

            Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s nerve-shredding, trippy, nightmarish odyssey begins with a wall of weathered speakers being assembled in a gully surrounded by mountains in the barren Moroccan desert. Soon a wall…
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Peter Hujar’s Day

            Ira Sachs’ sublime new film is based on a tape recording that writer Linda Rosenkrantz made of her good friend photographer Peter Hujar, recounting his past day. It was in 1974 and the project of hers was never finished but…
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Four Nights of a Dreamer

            A new 4K restoration of a criminally underappreciated 1971 film by the great French master Robert Bresson.             Adapted from the short story White Nights by Dostoevsky it’s about Jacques (Guillaume des Forets), a lonely artist who wanders the streets of…
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An Officer and a Spy

            Roman Polanski’s mesmerizing, exquisitely told account of the notorious “Dreyfus Affair” in France in 1894 when a 35-year-old Jewish French artillery officer- Alfred Dreyfus (Louis Garrel)- was wrongfully accused of treason, stripped of his rank and exiled to solitary confinement…
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David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds

            “Grief is rotting your teeth,” the dentist says to Karsh (Vincent Cassel). It’s more than rotting the teeth of the tech mogul- it’s become his industry since the loss of his beloved wife Becca (Diane Kruger).              Through his corporation GraveTech,…
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